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Stratom President and CEO Mark Gordon joins us today on the podcast. Stratom is a military contractor that makes robots for various divisions of the US armed forces.
The company has also expanded to the commercial sector with its field robotics solutions, including applications such as mining and construction.

Listen in as our friend Aaron Prather from ASTM sits down with Meghan Ziemba of Mavens of Manufacturing to continue our interview series from the Robotics Summit this spring.

On the show today, we talk to Sankalp Arora, CEO and co-founder of Gather.ai, and learn about Gather’s view of warehouse inventory management using drones.
The second feature on the show today is an interview with Jake Hall, the Manufacturing Millenial, and Scott Sizemore, Director of Commercial Marketing at Electrocraft.
Links:
https://www.gather.ai/
https://www.electrocraft.com/

On the show this week, we get the inside scoop on automating food manufacturing with Chef Robotics founder and CEO Rajat Bhageria. He takes us through the evolution of the Chef Robotics roadmap and the complexities of handling a variety of precooked food items with a robot.
Check out Chef Robotics:

Also on the show this week, Meaghan Ziemba, host of Mavens of Manufacturing interviews Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder and COO of MassRobotics. This interview was recorded live at the recent Robotics Summit event in Boston.
https://www.massrobotics.org/
https://www.mavensofmanufacturing.com/

In this episode of The Robot Report Podcast, Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman discuss the news of the week, then we hear recent interviews with Mike Oitzman and Ting Ming Ling, founder and CEO of OTSAW. Then we hear Eugene Demaitre interview Etienne Lacroix, CEO and founder of VENTION at the recent Robotics Summit.

Links from the show:
https://vention.io/
https://otsaw.com/camelloplus/
https://sfstandard.com/2024/05/20/waymo-foils-downtown-robbery-after-crash-cops-say/

In this episode, Steve Crowe, Mike Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre discuss highlights from the 2024 Robotics Summit and Expo that took place in Boston earlier in the month. Also featured in this episode are interviews with Agility Robotics co-founder and Chief Robotics Officer, Jonathan Hurst, along with Brightpick co-founder and CEO, Jan Zizka. Agility Robotics was the inaugural RBR50 2024 Robot of the Year winner, and Brightpick was the inaugural RBR50 2024 Application of the Year winner.
See all of this years winners here: https://www.therobotreport.com/rbr50-2024/
Keep up with the latest robotics news and information here on our network of websites:
https://www.therobotreport.com/
https://mobilerobotguide.com/
https://www.cobottrends.com/

In this episode, we talk to Matt Casella from Richtech about the Adam bartending robot, and then to Chris Padwick from John Deere about creating vision models for spraying weeds in the field. Both interviews occurred during the NVIDIA GTC24 event in March, and both companies leverage NVIDIA technology in their robotic solutions.
We also cover the breaking news from the week, including the launch of the new Boston Dynamics Electric Atlas
Richtech Robotics: https://www.richtechrobotics.com/
John Deere Autonomous Solutions: https://www.deere.com/en/sprayers/see-spray/
Boston Dynamics Electric Atlas: https://bostondynamics.com/atlas/